Bessette – Chief Actuary, Data and Analytics Officer, QBE North America
Kristen is an accomplished actuarial executive and business leader. Throughout her career, she has worked on growing and rehabilitating businesses, using her quantitative expertise in traditional actuarial areas of evaluating risk and pricing, as well as mining a wide range of data and analytics to achieve business results. She is currently the leader of a multi-year data strategy project aimed at modernizing QBE’s technology, to leverage data in customer and partner interactions, in decision making, and to enable our digital platforms.
Kristen is currently on the Board of Directors for the Spencer Educational Foundation, the premier organization funding the education of tomorrow’s risk management and insurance leaders where she chairs the Grants Committee.
Previously, she was appointed to a term as the P&C industry actuary to the Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology and has served on various industry committees as well as on the Board of Directors for the Casualty Actuaries of New England.
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